Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

“The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.”

“There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.”

“Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.”

“One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.”

“A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.”

“Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.”

“When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted”

“Thy friend has a friend, and thy friends friend has a friend; be discreet”

“Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish”

“Im not after fame and success and fortune and power. Its mostly [that I want] to have a good job and have good friends; thats the good stuff in life.”

“We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.”

“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.”

“The lessons we learn outside the classroom are equally if not more important than the ones we learn inside. I cant emphasize this enough. We learn how to live life, the most important lesson of all.”

“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.”

“Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.”

“Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of being”

“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.”

“Men are only as great as they are kind.”

“Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.”

“Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right”